Slavina Goleva

Scholarship Awarded:

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)

Slavina "Slavi" Goleva, a 2016 Biology graduate, has received a government-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Slavi will use her fellowship to pursue neuroscience research at Vanderbilt University.

NSF fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees. For the 2017 competition, NSF received over 13,000 applications and made 2,000 award offers.